{"id":593,"date":"2019-03-19T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2019-03-19T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:00:06","slug":"things-take-as-long-as-they-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Things Take as Long as They Take"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Flying home, Houston to Denver, from a business trip years ago, I was sitting next to a young guy who was having what can only be described as a hissy fit over our flight\u2019s delayed takeoff. He was going to miss his connection for Aspen that night. He fussed, he cussed, he carried on to no end. Finally, I turned to him and said, \u201cMy friend, you\u2019ll get to Denver tonight, you\u2019ll stay overnight in a hotel, and you\u2019ll be on the first flight to Aspen tomorrow morning. You\u2019ll likely be at the ski slopes by the time they open. It\u2019s really not worth a cardiac over something we can do nothing about.\u201d
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It\u2019s back to indifference<\/a> that I wrote about at length. Can we be indifferent to things that impact our schedule over which we have no control?
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On a mission trip to India in 2014, I watched in amazement as our host, a pastor who had a lot on his plate that week from taking care of our mission team to planning and executing a major multi-church, multi-national gathering. 30-mile road trips sometimes took more than three hours. Yet he never flapped. My takeaway was, \u201cThings take as long as they take.\u201d\u00a0
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Sometimes when I\u2019m running an errand, for example, I want things to take less time than they take! There\u2019s that internal tension, purely self-induced. I need a good dose of \u201cthings take as long as they take.\u201d A holy indifference to time.
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Jesus had that perspective. Many of his recorded encounters were unplanned, while he was on his way. The end of Luke 18, into Luke 19, he\u2019s on his way to Jerusalem\u2014a very important trip! But he stopped twice, once for the blind man and then for Zacchaeus.
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And taking the twelve, he said to them, \u201cSee, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon. And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise.\u201d…
As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant. They told him, \u201cJesus of Nazareth is passing by.\u201d And he cried out, \u201cJesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!\u201d… And Jesus stopped…
And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, \u201cZacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.\u201d (Selected verses from Luke 18.31 – 19.10) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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